Awasa , southern Ethiopia’s largest city, is 100km further south and sits on the shores of attractive Lake Awasa. With plenty of facilities, a great fish market and row boats to boot, Awasa is a great place to stop.

Awasa , southern Ethiopia’s largest city, is 100km further south and sits on the shores of attractive Lake Awasa. With plenty of facilities, a great fish market and row boats to boot, Awasa is a great place to stop.

Coffee Ceremony

Ethiopia's coffee ceremony is an integral part of their social and cultural life. An invitation to attend a coffee ceremony is considered a mark of friendship or respect and is an excellent example of Ethiopian hospitality

Leather Craft

Good leather feels like soft skin and smells headily aromatic. But you’d never guess if you followed its progress from slaughter through the tanning process. It is a grim, malodorous and environmentally hazardous activity. Skins are tumbled in drums of chemicals, the soaking, matted hair is scraped off by hand and the pungent heaps of would-be leather are manhandled off to the next noxious stage of the proceedings.

Things to do in Addis

Ethio-Americans we call them WZUPS sometimes breeze into Addis for a couple of weeks and return complaining that there was nothing to do in Addis. Addis does take a while to get to know if you know what I mean, Thanks to the guide magazines to Addis Ababa like Addis Happenings, What’s Up Addis! You can get many things to do now.

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